HMS Inflexible (1876)
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HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets. The ship was constructed in the 1870s for the Royal Navy to oppose the perceived growing thre
Inflexible with the pole masts fitted in 1885 that replaced the original full sailing rig
Plans of Inflexible as shown in Brassey's Naval Annual
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard, stern view of the ship, by Josiah Robert Wells
Drawing depicting one of the gun turrets
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a Royal Navy officer. Fisher was chiefly recognised as an innovator, strategist, and archit
HMS Inflexible (1876)
…just be stable, listing to about 35 degrees heel. Work restarted on the ship in December 1877, and the ship was commissioned 5 July 1881, under Captain John Fisher, although she was not completed until 18 October. Her eventual cost was £812,000. To counter the perceived threat from the Italians, Inflexible was to…
Portrait of Fisher by Hubert von Herkomer
Frances Katharine Josepha Broughton, who married Fisher in 1866
Fisher as Midshipman 1856–1860
Combat at Canton (Guangzhou) during the Second Opium War